Lovina McMurchy is a General Partner at an international Venture Capital Fund, Movac Capital and an Edmund Hillary Fellow, a program for exceptional entrepreneurs and investors working on global impact projects from Aotearoa/New Zealand.

She came to VC as a career transition after spending 20 years working for global technology companies based in the US. Her operating experience spans across product development, go-to-market and P&L management. Most recently she was a general manager of Growth for Alexa Shopping at Amazon and before that pioneered Amazon’s move into 3rd party subscription services. She held several senior leadership roles at Microsoft including being a senior executive at Skype and a tour of duty as Chief Marketing Officer for Microsoft Latin America. At Starbucks she launched several technology innovation services including the in-store wifi service and Starbucks first “order by phone” offering.

She holds an MBA from Harvard Business school and a Masters in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Auckland. She currently lives in New Zealand with her husband and children.